I've lived around databases all my life, 21st century is challenging for them: big data, throughput, complexity, virtualization, global distribution - it's all scalability.
I'm the founder and CTO of ScaleBase, solving this problem is a workoholic's heaven, so I'm having great time!
My agenda is to stay technical, no marketing and sales BS, give my summarized set of views and opinions to urgent topics, events and latest news in database scalability.

"To many this is no-brainer. Amazon wants to support the databases that its developer audiences want to use. This is simply a case of Amazon responding to user demand and oh-by-the-way making its cloud infrastructure more attractive to a specific target audience. Some say Postgres has gained traction since Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via its Sun buyout a few years back."

Some people I know said "yea, the writing was on the wall...". Well, was it?? Really?

AWS finally got the time to "plan" for supporting Postgres now? After supporting MySQL, Oracle and SQL Servers for almost 3 years?! Writing was on the wall? Where can I find a wall this old?

PostgreSQL has not picked up.

This is why it is a far 4th on Amazon's list. The writer of the text above also makes clear efforts not to pick a side here... "to many this is a no-brainer" or "some say Postgres has gained traction".

It has been around for ages, thru many "oh! it's now happening!" events, such as the acquisition by of MySQL by Sun, then by Oracle...

Technically, PostgreSQL's few superior capabilities, especially around schema online modifications (which gets more important these days!), probably could not change its fate, and it's still being held back by too many inferior capabilities, around performance, robustness, ecosystem...

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Technology leader, data and databases expert, hand on system
architect, senior consultant and project manager, with great experience in
understanding various aspects of organizations, distributed applications, and
integration of various technologies, hardware and software solutions.

I'm the founder and CTO of ScaleBase, a venture backed startup company building a next-generation distributed database engine based on standard MySQL databases to bring true cloud elasticity and scale-out capabilities to standard relational databases

An Oracle DBA since 1997, have administered database versions from Oracle7 till Oracle11g. My experience includes a senior and leading DBA in large organizations in the government and hi-tech industries, administering complex databases serving critical applications and data warehouses with large volumes and 24X7 availability, and with integration of almost every feature and product in the Oracle database offering.

An enterprise application software architect since 2001, specializes in the Java/JEE technology stack, with specific focus on Oracle middleware offering – from Oracle9iAS, OC4J and nowadays – the WebLogic platform.